The Paralympic emblem, featuring an athlete-centered concept, also combines Chinese calligraphy and Paralympic winter sports. Oriented around the Chinese character "fei" (flight), the emblem is an abstract image of an athlete who is fighting for victory, highlighting the spirit of and inspiration for the Paralympic Winter Games.

"The Olympic emblem was initially drawn on the idea of the Chinese character 'dong' (winter) in the bid emblem, with the character rendered in Chinese calligraphy representing Chinese culture. Meanwhile, a pattern combining ice-sports and snow-sports was used to represent the Olympic Games," Lin said.

"The design was guided by the athlete-centered concept of the Games. The questions we had to ask ourselves were these: How to make it different from the bid emblem and how to showcase the athlete-centered concept? Those required a lot of research. As the Winter Games have both ice sports and snow sports, the emblem has to be an abstract expression of both."

Last December, after rounds of selection, Lin's design, No. 801 in the system used by the emblem review committee, emerged from a total of 4,506 designs submitted from all over the world.

But the joy of triumph was soon displaced by the need to undertake intensive revision work. Lin said she and a group from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts had made the revisions repeatedly from January to November, and there were occasions when she was pushed onto the verge of collapse.

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